Entrance to Science and Tech

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know the scoring formula for entrance to the STEM program (Roosevelt, Flowers, and the third one I forget)

It used to be:

50% GPAx50 (/200 points)
25% Math Percentile on some unknown test . (/100)
25% Reading Percentile on some unknown test (/100)

Or something like that.

I know they switched to the PSAT 8/9 and am just wondering if the scoring is still about the same?

[Anonymous]

https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/erhs-sci-tech/eligibility-admission?authuser=0

[Anonymous]

I will have to find the information on test scores from last year from the actual letter, but note the following:

1) They did not use percentages last school year. They used the raw scores from Math & English then added the GPA Score.
2) For the last several years, PGCPS has used The PSAT 8/9 for the Math and English scores.
3) The PSAT 8/9 scores go up to 720 (per section) along with a percentile. For example my DC received a raw score of 660, which gave a percentile of 99% for one section. I can’t remember the other section percentile but the raw score was 580.
4) The raw scores are then added to the GPA score (unfortunately I can’t remember how they came up with this last year to give you the total score).
5) For last year, it appears that students needed a total score between 2300 -2400 for Roosevelt. And @ 2200 - 2250 for Flowers. As I recall DC score was 2590 +/- a number or two.
6) My DC got in, but the scoring to get in changes every year.
7) The primary difference is how they calculated the scores from years past. No more percentiles. However, who knows what they will do this year.

I am sorry I don’t recall all of the info on how the calculations have changed. If I can find the score letter, I will add to this post as “Roosevelt Parent 1”. Just trying to help because this info helped me last year.

Good Luck!!!

[Anonymous]

Thanks PP!

So if the PSAT 8/9 goes up to 720 per section or 1440 as the top score, then if GPA is supposed to count equally into toal score, the top possible GPA 4.0 would be equivalent to 1440, I would expect.

So perhaps the formula will be:

MATH PSAT + READING/WRITING PSAT + (GPA x 360) = total possible score of 2880

[Anonymous]

PP again to the previous poster -- my scoring system would make sense with your numbers if your daughter had about a 3.4 GPA....

[Anonymous]

I don’t remember the dear child’s - DC (never said it was a daughter) exact GPA - I think it was higher - but the concept you stated is correct. You may be right about the 2880. It seems likely. Not sure why they never gave out the new formula. Maybe that was just for last year. I just don’t know. So as long as you score reasonably well and have decent grades, you should be okay.

Again, Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

So my dad got her psat scores today. 520 math and 590 verbal. 4.0 GPA

What do you think her chances are for Roosevelt science and tech admission this year?

[Anonymous]

Dad = dd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my dad got her psat scores today. 520 math and 590 verbal. 4.0 GPA

What do you think her chances are for Roosevelt science and tech admission this year?

It’s impossible to tell because it’s always relative to other applicants. However those numbers look good!

[Anonymous]

The scoring formula is here:

https://www1.pgcps.org/eleanorroosevelt/index.aspx?id=200289

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The scoring formula is here:

https://www1.pgcps.org/eleanorroosevelt/index.aspx?id=200289

That formula references a test that is no longer in use. I think things have changed but the page has not been updated.

[Anonymous]

From Roosevelt Parent 1: Although it is impossible to know, I agree that your child’s score is pretty good. Based on last year’s system, it looks like the child has a 2540, which is well beyond the cut off from last year. I really hope your child gets in!!! It looks like you can have a good Christmas ?.

PP: The PSAT 8/9 of 1100, is that @ 90 - 95% percentile nationwide? We got pretty good on guessing the percentiles last year based on the scores from last year. Of course, that changes from year to year, but just curious.

[Anonymous]

Btw, the ? Was supposed to be a Picture of a Christmas tree and not a question mark. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
PP: The PSAT 8/9 of 1100, is that @ 90 - 95% percentile nationwide? We got pretty good on guessing the percentiles last year based on the scores from last year. Of course, that changes from year to year, but just curious.

You don't have to guess percentiles... the information is in a table.


https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/psat-8-9-understanding-scores-fall.pdf

For an 8th grader, a score of 1100 would be 97th %ile for all 8th graders Nationwide, and 96th %ile for all 8th graders who take the PSAT 8/9 test.

In fact 1180 to 1440 are all 99th percentile, so I guess it makes sense to use the scaled scores instead of the percentiles!

[Anonymous]

So I finally found confirmation online that the scoring system mentioned above is indeed correct.Program Admissions:

The scores from the PSAT 8/9 in conjunction with Core Content GPA in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies from all quarters/trimesters of the previous school year and the first grading period of the current school year are combined to create a total score.

The evaluation scale goes up to 2880.

The equation used to determine student composite scores is as follows:

PSAT 8/9 Verbal Score + PSAT 8/9 Math Score + Core Content GPA (360)
Total Possible Score = 2880

https://www.pgcps.org/science-and-technology-testing